Infographics are the perfect way to turn complex information into attractive visual insights. They can help researchers, marketeers, journalists or consultants to share knowledge with students, clients, readers, or the general public. If you want to start creating clear and attractive infographics, but don’t know where to start, you’ve come to the right place. This page gives you a complete overview of tools, resources and inspiration you can use as a starting point for your designs!

Vlaamse Hogescholenraad:

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Universiteit Utrecht workshop:

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• Information is Beautiful: informationisbeautiful.net
• Information is Beautiful awards: informationisbeautifulawards.com
• Visual.ly: visual.ly/view
• Pinterest: pinterest.com
• Google Dataset Search: datasetsearch.research.google.com
• Dear data: dear-data.com

• Canva: canva.com
• Infogram: infogram.com
• Piktochart: piktochart.com
• Venngage Infographic maker and Graph maker
• Whimsical: whimsical.com
• Adobe Illustrator: adobe.com
• Affinity Designer: affinity.serif.com
• BioRender (like Canva, but specifically for life sciences): biorender.com
• Free infographic templates in PowerPoint: hubspot.com/infographic-templates
• List of dataviz tools: creativebloq.com/design-tools/data-visualization

• Burst: burst.shopify.com
• Flickr: flickr.com/
• Picography: picography.co
• Pixabay: pixabay.com
• Reshot: reshot.com
• Unsplash: unsplash.com
• Visual Hunt: visualhunt.com

• Freepik: freepik.com
• The noun project: thenounproject.com

• Cathopic, catholic pictures: cathopic.com
• Figshare, plant illustrations and more for biologists: figshare.com/authors/Plant_Illustrations
• Medical illustrations: smart.servier.com

• Adobe Color CC: color.adobe.com
• Coolors.co: coolors.co
• Pictaculous: digitalinspiration.com/color-palette-generator
• Website color schemes: canva.com/learn/website-color-schemes
• 100 brilliant color combinations: canva.com/learn/100-color-combinations
• Article: Your friendly guide to colors in data visualisation

• Dafont: dafont.com
• Google Fonts: fonts.google.com
• FontSquirrel font identifier: fontsquirrel.com/matcherator
• Font Pairing: fontpair.co

• Dataviz catalogue: datavizcatalogue.com
• Choose and design the perfect chart: chart.guide
• Choosing the right chart: infogram.com/page/choose-the-right-chart-data-visualization
• The Chartmaker Directory: chartmaker.visualisingdata.com
• The Data Viz Project: datavizproject.com
• Datawrapper: datawrapper.de
• Flourish: flourish.studio
• LocalFocus: localfocus.nl
• D3.js: d3js.org

• Snazzy maps (Google maps styles): snazzymaps.com
• Mapbox: mapbox.com
• Mapme: mapme.com/stories
• Datawrapper: datawrapper.de
• Leaflet JavaScript Library: leafletjs.com
• 3D maps with QGIS and Aerialod: statsmapsnpix.com
• Read our blogpost: Behind the maps

• Data visualisation, Andy Kirk
• Dear Data, Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec
• Information graphics, Taschen
• Infographic designers’ sketchbooks, Steven Heller & Rick Landers
• Storytelling with data, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
• The visual display of quantitative information, Edward Tufte
• Trees, maps and theorems, Jean-Luc Doumont
• Visual journalism, Gestalten
• Visual thinking, Willemien Brand

• Twitter list: Dataviz world leaders

• The beauty of data visualization (David McCandless)
• Journalism in the age of data (Geoff McGhee)
• Datafest online 2020 (78 different talks)
• Outlier 2021 (62 free talks)

• Chartable (by the Datawrapper team)
• Cool Infographics (Randy Krum)
• Flowing Data (Nathan Yau)
• Infographics for the People (John Grimwade)
• The Information is Beautiful blog (David McCandless)
• Junk Charts (Kaiser Fung)
• Nightingale (by the Data Visualization Society)
• The Storytelling with Data blog (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic)
• The Visme blog on infographics
• Visualising Data (Andy Kirk)

• Data Journalism Conversations
• Datasaurus Rex
• Data Stories
• Data Viz Today
• Explore Explain
• Storytelling with Data
• The Data Journalism Podcast